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2016-03-05 Micrographia

Mar05
by on 2016-03-05 at 22:24
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Today Karen and I participated in an event in our local museum of the history of science. We drew pictures of insects seen through a microscope, and then transferred our drawings into monoprint. That’s my* body louse, Pediculus humanus, reproduced above – I forgot to reverse the caption. The event was designed to celebrate the famous work Micrographia, by Robert Hooke.

UPDATE: Got some paint and had a go at home today. This isn’t a print, this is the back-lit acetate block I used to hold the paint after making a print (so it’s a kind of negative). 20160306_hippo_monoprint_block

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* only borrowed. I wasn’t allowed to keep her.

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2016-01-10 Mini Hippo Rave

Jan10
by on 2016-01-10 at 17:17
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So there I was, pulling New Year crackers at our office party, when out fell a tiny notebook, no bigger than my thumb*.  After a little while I noticed it was full of dancing hippos.  I spent the rest of the evening on the dance floor with Karen, trying to emulate the funky, cool moves of this smooth dancer.  Karen laughed a lot, so I reckon I must have succeeded.

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* casual hyperbole, under section IV of the Artistic Licensing Act 2008. True figure** is 60 (+/-1) x 40 (+/- 1) mm^2.
** for the notebook.  The  thumb is smaller.

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thumbnail sketches of a hippo having a hippo of a time dancing.

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2016-01-02 Happy New Year

Jan02
by on 2016-01-02 at 14:57
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Here’s a picture of a very self-confident and well-fed little character we met on our traditional New Year’s Day walk around Oxford with friends.  Wishing you a Happy New Year for 2016 from everyone at invisibules.org – we hope you get as many nuts out of life as he obviously does.

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Cheeky squirrel munching the nut he charmed from us.

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2015-12-11 A Trip to London Zoo

Dec12
by on 2015-12-12 at 12:35
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Yesterday I took the day off work and we went to London Zoo for a fabulous day of animal treats.  Among the treats not pictured were the aye-aye (too dark to see it for long, but it came right up to the glass;) and the baby two-toed sloth, Edward, who is not on public view but we happened to coincide with him as he was being taken home for the evening by his surrogate (human) mother, and stopped for a chat.  The baby emperor tamarin twins were very interested in my sketch-book, and had a go at climbing all over it, and trying to see if there was food hidden between the pages.   The brown titi monkey was then inspired to do the same.

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making lunch, and travelling on the X90 coach to London.
Western gorilla, 2 weeks old;
tigers;
komodo dragon;
axolotl;
long horned cow fish;
stingray;
okapi;
ring-tailed lemur;
southern tamandua (tree anteater);
piranha;
2 baby emperor tamarin twins, in my sketchbook;
red titi monkey (also in sketchbook);
dinner at Rajdoot;
back to Oxford on the X90 coach..


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2015-11-27 Urban Hunter of the Urban Jungle

Nov27
by on 2015-11-27 at 20:51
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I created this comic as my entry for a competition.  I didn’t win, so now I’m free to share it with my readers!  To make it easier for most people, I’ve translated it out of the original Latvian into English.

[Art note: I decided in this case to use vector graphics (rather than my usual rough sketches and bitmaps) — which was interesting, being simultaneously liberating (let the computer do the work) and challenging (the need to make definite decisions on line position).  Thank you inkscape.]

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The urban hunter explores the urban jungle, ants, bees, elephant, hippo, rhino, giraffe, zebra, lion, wildebeest and the odd human commuter.

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2015-11-14 Victoria and Albert

Nov15
by on 2015-11-15 at 12:02
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I don’t have a comic to post at the moment, so instead here is yesterday’s page from my sketchbook, I realise that’s not quite the same thing.  We wandered around the V&A without a plan, and somehow the page filled with drawings of things that caught my attention.  Later we went to a concert South of the River, out beyond Peckham, with friends.

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China:
vase with lotus and fish design, 1750-1850 Qing dynasty.
Teapot 1989, Gerald Gulotta and Bao Li'an
Owl-shaped wine vessel, 1250-1050BC, Shang dynasty. Bronze.
Korea: Bottle with willow design 1100-1300 Koryo- dynasty
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"Bartmann" pitcher with medallions and a crucifixion scene. 1575. (Workshop of?) Jans Emens Mennicken
Two earthenware pots ~1880. Linthorpe Art Pottery, designed by Christopher Dresser
Knitted green hat. Provenance unknown. ~late 20th century?

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2015-10-24 Enchanted Evening

Oct25
by on 2015-10-25 at 11:00
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I would like to thank my wonderful and surreal wife, Karen, for the wordplay that underpins this comic.  I merely added the seahorses and coloured it in.

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It was just another tedious social function. But then, magically, across the crowded room, their lips met. [picture: fish at a party. Two seahorses kiss across the room using their long long snouts)]

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2015-10-23 The Natural History Museum

Oct24
by on 2015-10-24 at 11:22
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Yesterday I took the day off work and we went into London to visit the Natural History Museum.  Darwin says “Hi!”

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almost compleat stegosaurus. Arthur Pain collection. Tube Worms. Aragonite. Icthyosaur with babies. Brain coral. Umbrella-mouthed gulper. Deep sea gnosher (before feeding - after feeding) The blue whale is being serviced.

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20151019 Pan Tilt Zoom

Oct19
by on 2015-10-19 at 22:02
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Another pleasant day at the zoo (with baby Greater One Horned Rhinoceros.)

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Advanced camera technique for wildlife photography - pan, tilt and zoom.

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2015-08-08 Clown

Aug15
by on 2015-08-15 at 11:59
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No comic today, but I wanted to share two doodles from my sketchbook.  The second one I made at the hospital, waiting for a gastroscopy*, and perhaps then the theme is obvious.  In hindsight I now understand the first one too!

I’m happy to say they found nothing!  The doctor allowed me to turn slightly to look at the monitor, so now I have gazed at my navel from both sides.

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(* The spelling checker is complaining, and suggesting gastropod instead.  I think that would have been far tastier.)

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A clown's head floating in space, with an octopus wrapped around the peak of his pointed hat; a spotted bow-tie; we can see through the oesophagus, a hand operated meat mincer.

A periscope with an eye on a flexible tube, peering into a maze of transparent tubes, one of which opens up into a sphere containing a whale, a shark, an octopus. A network of vein-like tubes cover the surface.

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